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Archer wrote:

Does this apply to anything with barrier? I lied, I actually put +lucky hit on with barrier. No clue if it's working or not though.

MrBean wrote:

No, its just the specific one called Conceited. Deal [15-25%]x increased damage while you have a Barrier active.

@MrBean So that aspect does actually work if you are using a barrier that is not a skill barrier. And it is pretty fantastic. I highly recommend adding it if you can/have room. I have it on a 2H staff so its increased to 50%. So while I have a barrier up I do 50% more damage to everything. And I have one about 80% of the time. Almost everything I do generates barrier. Hitting elites, cooldowns, lucky hit.

You guys are making me wish I’d stuck with sorcerer.

ha ... got a new off hand, had to temp fate. Put a sacred aspect on it (+4 ice shard pierce) --- can't reimprint (which is fine, now that it's max).

Hit 83. Got new boots and ammy, hitting pretty hard, little to no downtime. High 30 NM's are getting easy. Think it may be time to hit 40's.

I made the mistake last night of trying to completely respect into a fire sorc. And I hated it. It was so awful. Damage output was so bad. And it just wasn't fun to play either. Then had to go back to my ice build. Wasted something 18M gold. It is crazy expensive to completely re-spec your paragon board when in the 80s. 11K gold per paragon refund. I have almost 200 paragon points. It was ~4M just to refund twice to do the two changes. And then all the re-rolls on alt gear to get fire stats. Who knows how many crafting mats. And wasted some good ripped aspects. Along with around 2 hours of time. Ugh. Could have ran 12 nm dungeons in that time and leveled up instead, lol.

I just found the legendaries and glyph to build the end game I wanted. I’m still cruising so I may hold off to avoid that situation. I’ve been hoarding points and staying close to first slot to avoid wrecking my board in the meantime. I got lucky and found an OP 2 hand axe that’s DPS is about 1000k over anything close - at my level it’s enough to carry me for a long bit.

@Feeb Are you rolling a barb or druid?

@Archer yah, I've heard how painful it is to try out new builds. One of the hugger complaints. It's been a bit but I remember D3 being much more forgiving. Hopefully an area they'll address. At the least, give us a fast way to refund and rework paragon.

Sadly, for now, seems shards is the most viable build right now.

Random fun story. Kept enchanting my boots last night, trying to get movement speed. Got it all way up to 16m in cost... Only to find out it already had speed! Jesus christ. Blew soooo much gold for a stupid mistake (I blame the bottle of wine). I finally found new boots/ammy (my originals both had movement) and after a couple NMs I just felt soooo slow, couldn't stand it.

Archer wrote:

Druid. Doesn’t really open up until glyphs / legendaries. But it gets crazy. Enjoying it so far. I miss the sorcerer and the rogue kills so much faster but I want mindless. It’s definitely simple.

@MrBean I was wrong...

Feeb wrote:

Yeah, end game videos of Druid play looks fantastic. It just takes so long to get going. I might actually roll one for season 1.

@Archer - max on boots and ammy is 26.2% each. I also think you cap out at 150.

My new boots have 16, ammy max. Old were both max. I can't tell any difference loosing that 8%.

Sucks though because my ammy has MCR, not CDR. The +3 devouring and +3 defensive skills are quite awesome. My ammy was my oldest piece of gear (from mid 50s).

Yah, Druids are nuts end game. They seem to be amazing tanks and deal tons of damage. I'll probably role one for s1.

Also I picked up a digital copy on ps5 so I can switch back and forth during Final Fantasy while nto leaving my basement. I jump over for wb/ht.

The controller works crazy well. You know there's no cool down on the horse on Console? Crazy.

Picking crap up and managing inventory with a controller sucks though.

MrBean wrote:


What PS5 has no cooldown for horse? I have one on xbox.

Archer wrote:

? I have ancestral on, shows 15.8-26.2% as possible range.

Archer wrote:

So, I'm clearly a liar or it was just updated in recent patch. Hasn't had a cool down like pc until today. Now it's the same behavior as pc, but who knows, I could just be dumb.

MrBean wrote:

yeah, I'm trying to find info online. I know the in game tool tip says max is 200%.

And I' know I'm over 150, just not by how much. I'd have to boot up the console to see. I may have over exaggerated my amulet amount. But I know each one is at least at or around 25%.

yeah, looks like 26.2 for both is max. Even with 820 items. So even though the game says you can get up to 200%, you can only get up to 152.4. Which is where I must be then. Because I move pretty much as fast as a mount.

Ohhhh interesting... On Console, I can enchant my off hand now?! Weird, unless it just got patched today. Gotta test on PC later.

I don't hate playing on ps5! But the inability to chat sucks. Lack of dual screen for Helltides is a bummer, but can use another device.

I really hate that it plays better on my Playstation than my laptop with a 3070 =(

It does play really well on console with a controller. Just some minor gripes. Like not being able to see all the tooltips. Not able to see your xp for example. And not being able to move things around in your inventory to any slot.

Yah inventory management is definitely painful for sure. It's great for quick runs though overall. I'll always prefer PC for ARPGs but will for sure do some random D4 on PS5.

They really need to get moving on social elements to easier group up. I've passed most of my random clan and not easy to randomly find groups.

I doubt I'll pull it off but would like to be 95+ before season 1. Pretty sure post 100 and one season in..
I'll be burned out and will shelf it for awhile.

I just figured out I am an idiot for not realizing something. And something that hardly anyone how plays an ice sorc has probably realized. And its the reason I was upset about the XP changes. They were actually legit big changes. But not for ice sorcs.

Freezing and then killing an enemy prevents the adds that would normally spawn from them. So you lose out on a big chunk of XP. So anyone playing an ice sorc will gain less xp for playing the class as the class is intended to be played. Freezing things and then killing them.

I tested this by running two of the big NM dungeons. One that has mostly spider mobs. And one that does not. Aulderwood (no spiders, mostly animals and werewolves) gives you ~1.8M per run. Meanwhile something like say Guulruhns (mostly spiders, some zombies) will only give you ~990K per run. Yet if you run Guulruhns without freezing all the spiders, so they actually spawn more spiders. You will get ~2M. So all other classes are getting more XP on average in most NM dungeons. Because a lot of enemies have extra spawns. But if you freeze them before killing, no extra spawns.

So just an FYI for anyone running an ice sorc on here. Don't freeze every mob for almost double XP gains. Or just run non mostly spiders NMD for best results.

That seems very substantial

Finished my Druid pulverize build. And… wow. This is so much more fun and efficient. I’m not sure I can die anymore. Lol.

@Feeb Is it as fun to play as it seems to be in videos?

Hit 90. Debate rolling a Druid but seems silly with Seasons around the corner. You have to create a new toon for the season right?

Good little write up on Sorc issues. I do hate being stuck with one build but overall, I'm a killing machine. With proper play, uptime is insane and I typically clear faster than other classes. We definitely need some love though. The armor stats were surprising.

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/14ldwvp/...

Archer wrote:

Pretty fun but it’s such a grind I think anything will become boring in this game.

I feel like I’m carrying the world boss fights now. I’m like the only one alive, got the aggro and can see my damage coming off it’s that high. It feels like tanking in wow at this point.

MrBean wrote:

Yeah you have to start a new one for the seasonal content. So I'm not rolling a new character until the new season either. As its like 1-2 weeks away. They are supposed to announce early next week when it will be dropping. According to a tweet by one of the dev team yesterday.

I haven't tried the rogue class yet at all. I'm saving it for season 1...

Quest tracking is a mess. There is currently a way to see quest chains completed that give in game achievements- otherwise there is no way to tell if you’ve done a certain quest. 4-5 quests per zone launch from loot- which is usually very generously dropped- but watch out for those blue item names. I’d advise you DO NOT DROP quests- only grab them if you’re ready and especially grab ones in the field far from warps- some of them do not have a visible symbol on the map to launch or with multiple quest chains.

I managed to 100% steppes but I stopped one quest chain midway and basically had to retrace my steps to find an NPC with a tiny ! Over him that did not show on map. I have worked on a few other zones but am short a handful of unknown quests.

Definitely room to improve.

Yeah, only being able to have 20 active side quests is dumb in an open world game. Especially when there are over 200 side quests in the game. And the fact there is no completed quest log either.

Oh crap, congrats on 22 years you old fart @Feeb

Archer wrote:

22 years seems like yesterday. Thanks.

Who are seasons for? Obviously it’s for the hardcore players no? When the season is over do any of you plan on using that character still since you can’t use them for the next season? Will you still use one or more of a class you’ve made continuously that does not participate in the seasons?

My thought is that I don’t want a character that I would only use for 3 months and then never touch again, but like I said this is for those that plan to make this there main game for the long term and would get tired of playing one character for too long.

Shane12m wrote:

Seasons are mainly for people who main the game . But also for anyone who wants to jump back in after some time has passed.

Each season will bring new content. When each season is over, that content is moved to the enteral realm. The main game. So you don't have to make a new character to play that season if you don't want. You can come back when say season 2 starts, and experience the content from season 1 on your already late game character that you are currently playing now.

Also seasonal characters get moved to the eternal realm after the season ends too. So you can use that character for later end game stuff that gets added later as well. They don't have to be one and done per season.

I personally plan to roll a new character for season 1, with a new class. And then see from there. That might just be the end of my Diablo 4 for the rest of the year. Who knows. And then I'll come back at some point next year and see where the game is at. Or I might wait until the official expansion drops. It just depends on how much new content they are adding in seasons. How much stuff is changing gameplay wise. And how they handle the balance fixing. How much of the broken stuff they are fixing. The game has already gotten very stale to me. So I'm waiting to see what gets added in season 1.

Archer wrote:

That was a very good explanation thanks. So basically if I’m not in a rush to do the season 1 stuff I can do it later when it ends with my current character

Also each season has cosmetics and unlockable you can earn in it. I'm purposely not really playing a Necro and a Rogue planning to play them in future seasons myself.

Just hit 100, weeee.

Went to go get my supposedly awesome 2k hp necklace, got absolute crap rolls - lowest possible HP @ 1191, son of a b.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqThGWh0I7c&t=37s